From: Jason Watson <jbw@...>
Date: 2010-08-02T17:53:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Shoes: Stacks and Flows

On 2010-08-02 08:31:23 +0100, Terry Michaels said:

> I'm still learning Shoes -- working on basic formatting. I'm a little
> confused, though, with the results of this code:
> 
> app = Shoes.app do
>   background "#FFFFFF"
>   flow :width => 1.0 do
>     stack do
>       para "North America"
>       button("View") do
>       end
>     end
>     stack do
>       para "Europe"
>       button("View") do
>       end
>     end
>     stack do
>       para "Asia"
>       button("View") do
>       end
>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> After reading the manual, I had the impression that the above code would
> produce something like this:
> 
> text     text     text
> button   button   button
> 
> Instead I get:
> 
> text
> button
> text
> button
> text
> button

To get what you wanted you can do it like this:

Shoes.app do
  stack do
    flow do
      para "North America"
      para "Europe"
      para "Asia"
    end
    flow do
      button("View 1") do
      end
      button("View 2") do
      end
      button("View 3") do
      end
    end
  end
end

Flow seems to go left to right so having in two flows like this works, 
otherwise you get everything going left to right in the order you add 
them.

~jbw